Meaning of homegarden | Babel Free

Definitions

The yard areas surrounding a house.

Examples

“Based on the ideas and concerns discussed above, we want to propose a more multi-leveled approach to understanding how some of the caboclo women farmers on Ituqui Island, in Lower Amazon, Brazil, relate to their physical environment, especially their homegardens, and the implications for their lives as well as for their families and immediate community. For this, we will introduce aspects of the social, economic and environmental interactions of Ituqui women and their activities in homegardens.”

“Our homes were in the proposed area of submergence. We’d have to move with our friends and families, our dogs and cows, and forsake our homegardens and fields, the plants we had planted, the birds, butterflies, frogs, snakes, and other beings of this valley, and this tiny headwater of a stream we’d nurtured.”

“Today many homegardens are threatened by urbanization, industrialization of agriculture, and other challenges. In some regions, market pressures are causing people to strip their homegardens down to fewer species in order to meet consumer demand for specific products.”

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